Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature

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Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature examines the directions taken by Comparative Literature in recent years and maps the shifts in paradigms that are in process. Alternative discourses of Comparative Literature are explored in the volume with reference to the ongoing debates on World Literature, contemporary interpretations of the canon, the dialectic of resistance embodied in cultural productions of the region and the contestations implicit in the oral and performative traditions. The nineteen essays in the five sections of the volume also discuss the challenges and opportunities provided by the emergence of areas like Culture Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Translation Studies, etc. The essays emphasize the need to transform Comparative Literature into a discipline capable of coping with the crisis in humanities in the twenty-first century, based on the multilingual, multicultural experiences of countries like India.In his lecture on a#39;Viswa Sahityaa#39;, which is the word Tagore used for a#39;Comparative
Literaturea#39; in Bangla, he uses the ... whose writing expresses the pain of every
man, that writing has found a place in literaturea.15 Amiya Dev in his essay onanbsp;...

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Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature

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E. V. Ramakrishnan, Harish Trivedi, Chandra Mohan

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SAGE Publications India - 2013-05-30

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